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Styling Flowcharts Using CSS

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Re: Styling Flowcharts Using CSS

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This is very neat. I’m trying to figure out if you can embed the flow chart builder itself into a post/site. I can imagine for some more complex topics, people would like to be able to move things around/play with the design.

I believe it would be tractable to allow for an additional export option (i.e. Cytoscape.js JSON, CSS) in Flowchart.fun so you could load your figure into a Cytoscape.js instance in your site. This approach would allow for interactive features in your site (e.g. click a node to go to the corresponding section in your article).

If you're looking for something more along the lines of an embedded tweet, it may be possible to use the fullscreen export link in an iframe.

Perhaps Rob could chime in with more details. I'm not involved with Flowchart.fun, but I am a fan. Congratulations on shipping your latest release, Rob.

Re: Styling Flowcharts Using CSS

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I love your landing page by the way. It explains the app while giving a playground/demo at the same time. This is a very cool way to showcase your site. Well done!

Thank you so much! I'm reworking app flows this week and I was hesitating about removing this demo. I'm taking this comment as a sign that it's got to stay.

I suggest don't remove the demo. I have a watermarking app https://watermark.ink the only reason there are non-english speaking users is because of the landing page itself is the app.
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